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| author |  Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> | 2020-12-21 07:10:19 +0800 |
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| committer | Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> | 2020-12-21 07:10:19 +0800 |
| commit | 3104153d5ea3bd0e68166e02ec847a895f9a76e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b65383c203c550fab3f6ffea51cd474168ac34b /Documentation/git-init.txt | |
| parent | l10n: Update Catalan translation (diff) | |
| parent | Git 2.30-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3104153d5ea3bd0e68166e02ec847a895f9a76e6.tar.xz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/master' into git-po-master
* github/master: (42 commits)
Git 2.30-rc1
git-gui: use gray background for inactive text widgets
Another batch before 2.30-rc1
git-gui: Fix selected text colors
Makefile: conditionally include GIT-VERSION-FILE
git-gui: fix colored label backgrounds when using themed widgets
config.mak.uname: remove old NonStop compatibility settings
diff: correct interaction between --exit-code and -I<pattern>
t/perf: fix test_export() failure with BSD `sed`
style: do not "break" in switch() after "return"
compat-util: pretend that stub setitimer() always succeeds
strmap: make callers of strmap_remove() to call it in void context
doc: mention Python 3.x supports
index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch
get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice
branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch
init: document `init.defaultBranch` better
t7900: use --fixed-value in git-maintenance tests
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-init.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-init.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 59ecda6c17..b611d80697 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ DESCRIPTION This command creates an empty Git repository - basically a `.git` directory with subdirectories for `objects`, `refs/heads`, -`refs/tags`, and template files. An initial `HEAD` file that -references the HEAD of the master branch is also created. +`refs/tags`, and template files. An initial branch without any +commits will be created (see the `--initial-branch` option below +for its name). If the `$GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it specifies a path to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. @@ -73,8 +74,10 @@ If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path. -b <branch-name>:: --initial-branch=<branch-name>:: -Use the specified name for the initial branch in the newly created repository. -If not specified, fall back to the default name: `master`. +Use the specified name for the initial branch in the newly created +repository. If not specified, fall back to the default name (currently +`master`, but this is subject to change in the future; the name can be +customized via the `init.defaultBranch` configuration variable). --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]:: |